Happy Marten Day! I have weirdly only drawn #Mario for #LegendsofRetro once so far, back in 2006! #Mar10 #SuperMarioBros #FanArt

Fan art of Dendy the elephant, a pale yellow elephant boy with blue cap and shoes, red shirt, and yellow pants. One hand is doing a three-fingered salute like a kid trying to make their hand like a Ninja Turtle's, and the other is a loose fist at his side.

Legends of Retro #29 is here and it's #Dendy the #elephant from the unlicensed "Famiclone" systems from Russia! As always, check the Cara link for commentary!

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#fanart #legendsofretro #nes #famicom #famiclone #bootleggames #steepler

Fanart of the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of Fantasia, specifically inspired by the Atari 2600 game based on it. Mickey Mouse in his sorcerer gear prepares to intercept a generic GIMP lens flare. In the background, one of the iconic enchanted brooms from the segment can be seen holding buckets of water, at the mouth of a cave.

This was intended to be what came the very next day from this repost but it never ended up happening back then. Nevertheless, #LegendsofRetro #28 is... #SorcerersApprentice! #Atari #MickeyMouse #Atari2600 #FanArt

Make sure to hit the link for commentary! cara.app/post/7299f0a...

Fan art of the game Ao Oni, the bulbous, purple-skinned (as opposed to blue as implied by the title) demon is staring up at the viewer from a carpeted floor, popping what looks like The People's Eyebrow. Bookcases frame the illustration on top and bottom

Final #LegendsofRetro to date... was planning on having a new one finished to post the next day but might not happen, but in the meantime enjoy #27: #AoOni!

#fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/770bdd5...

Fan art of Castle Wolfenstein, an American Allied soldier shoots through a Nazi. A tattered Nazi banner hangs on the castle wall.

Time for - by far - my most popular piece! #LegendsofRetro #26: #CastleWolfenstein!
#fanart #MuseSoftware #AppleII

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/5737816...

Fan art of Kirby's Adventure. King Dedede has shot Kirby (with Star Rod) out of his mouth and into the air, high above the Fountain of Dreams, so he can go chase Nightmare

Missed a day of posting because I hurt too much and was otherwise busy to boot.

#LegendsofRetro #25 is #Kirby'sAdventure! #NES #HALLaboratory #Nintendo #Kirby #Dedede

Cara link! cara.app/post/5c1fc2e...

Fan art of Little Computer People, a man and a cat are dancing.

#LegendsofRetro #24 is the first one from 2025: #LittleComputerPeople! #fanart #activision #commocore64

Cara link! cara.app/post/8c89417...

Fan art of Bubble Bobble. Bub, the green Bubble Dragon, encases a Zen-Chan in a bubble while in front of one of the iconic pink poles

Another from 2024, #LegendsofRetro #23 is #BubbleBobble! #Bub #Taito #fanart

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/5329225...

Fan art of the game Metroid, featuring a rendition of the goofy instruction manual version of Ridley, and Samus Aran.

#LegendsofRetro #22 is the first one from 2024, and it's... #Metroid! #fanart #Nintendo #NES #SamusAran #Ridley

Cara link! cara.app/post/c96f37a...

Dizzy from the Dizzy game series, an egg with boxing gloves and sneakers

#LegendsofRetro # 21 is #Dizzy the egg! #Yolkfolk #AmstradCPC #ZXSpectrum #C64 #Codemasters #OliverTwins

Cara link! cara.app/post/a0dc9ad...

Fan art of Dragon Quest, with a grass landscape (mountains and clouds in the background) and one of the series' trademark Slimes in the middle. A text box at the bottom reads: "A Slime draws near! Command?"

#LegendsofRetro #20 is #DragonQuest! (or #DragonWarrior, as it was initially known over here) Also from 2020.

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/ba1c2eb...

#NES #Famicom #Enix #Squenix #SquareEnix #RPG #fanart #Smile

Fan art of the first JNKPlat game, Platdude (or a proto-Platdude) stretches his arms out on a red platform while many other platforms loom in the distance

Another from 2020... #LegendsofRetro #19 is: #JNKPlat!

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/20fc268...

#Jayenkai

Sonic the Hedgehog fan art. Sonic is jogging along some Green Hill Zone landscape. A waterfall runs in the background, and there is a sunflower present.

Not much of a leap this time as the next art is from 2020... #LegendsofRetro #18 is... #SonictheHedgehog!

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/64496f1...
#Sonic #Sega #MegaDrive #Genesis #Sonikku

Fanart of Pokémon Red and Blue. A Bulbasaur (the player's) and a wild Pikachu stand in a clearing in a forest. A prompt asks the player: WHAT WILL BULBASAUR DO? FIGHT PKMN RUN ITEM

Another jump forward, this time to 2019! #LegendsofRetro #17 is... #Pokemon Red/Blue Version!

Cara for commentary! cara.app/post/62aabc7...

#GameBoy #fanart #Nintendo #GameFreak #CreaturesInc

8-bit-ish pixel fanart of Link from the Legend of Zelda, holding a not 8-bit-ish Triforce piece above his head

Another leap to 2017 for #LegendsofRetro #16... #TheLegendofZelda! Certainly not my finest work, though #fanart #Zelda #Link #NES #Nintendo

Cara LINK (lol) cara.app/post/39f4bf0...

Fanart of the Elektronika 60 version of Tetris, using what is essentially ASCII art

Jumping forward to 2015 with the original version of #Tetris for #LegendsofRetro #15! #fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/0c1135d...

Fanart of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game. The scene is a sewer, with Michelangelo leaping down from a raised set of bricks. Four Mouser robots walk around.

#LegendsofRetro #14: #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, based on the original #NES game! #TMNT #fanart

Illustrated in 2008

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/50167e5...

Fan art of Mega Man from the game Mega Man

#LegendsofRetro #13: #MegaMan! This was started in 2006 before I got my job (same one I'm at now!) and finished in 2008.
#fanart #capcom #NES

Cara link for commentary! cara.app/post/f20afd9...

Kirby's Dream Land fan art, where Kirby is white like in the American box art

#LegendsofRetro #12: Kirby's Dream Land! The final art completed in 2006. #kirby #hallaboratory #nintendo #fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/a21ce0f...

Fanart of Space Invaders. The player cannon is shooting through a shield, and above are three of the enemy aliens: two "crab" type and an "octopus" type

#LegendsofRetro #11: #SpaceInvaders! #Taito #fanart

Commentary at Cara! cara.app/post/5e749c1...

Fanart of Terry Bogard from the first Fatal Fury performing Burn Knuckle.

#LegendsofRetro #10: #FatalFury! #TerryBogard #SNK #fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/d636796...

Pixel fanart of Garland vs. Black Mage in the first Final Fantasy

#LegendsofRetro #9: #FinalFantasy - the #NES original! #fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/b4ae943...

Fan art of Adam Hunter from Streets of Rage, in front of a realistic-looking brick wall which was generated with GIMP's pattern tools.

#LegendsofRetro #8: My favorite character from the prequel to my favorite game(s), #AdamHunter from the first #StreetsofRage!

Cara link! cara.app/post/d054a9c... #fanart

Fanart of the first Mortal Kombat. Sub-Zero (Bi Han) rips out Scorpion's (Hanzo Hasashi) spine and head. Way too much blood sprays from the wound.

#LegendsofRetro #7: MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT! Featuring #SubZero ripping out #Scorpion 's head and spine. #fanart #mortalkombat

Cara link! cara.app/post/37db07f...

Fan art of the Famicom Disk System game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Papa, a rotund man in vaguely Arabian/Middle Eastern clothing, stands on a post and prepares to throw a radish with a face at a Heihō, better known in English as a Shy Guy. A POW Block can be seen sitting half-off panel, on a stump opposite of Papa.

#LegendsofRetro #6 is Yume Kōjō: #DokiDokiPanic! Despite it being treated as "common knowledge" and is made fun of when it shows up in video game trivia videos and articles, I still run across people all the time who don't know it's what became SMB 2 in the west.

Cara! cara.app/post/b1ca612...

Fanart of Astyanax from the Nintendo Entertainment System game of the same name - a blue-armored high school student with an axe in-hand.

#LegendsofRetro #5 is #Astyanax ( #NES version). This is one of those ones that I realize isn't considered a "legend" to many, but it is to me. The series is built around what "legend" means to different people and groups of people. #fanart

Cara link! cara.app/post/75dc422...

Fan art of Super Mario Bros., Small Mario leaps up and hits a block, which produces a coin. There are bricks on either side of that block, and a barely visible question block at the top of the work.

#LegendsofRetro #4 is... #SuperMarioBros! Another one from 2006 originally... I guess I went HAM on these until I got a job in October of that year (same one I'm still at!) so the first one completed outside of 2006 was #13. Don't forget to check it out on Cara!

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#fanart

Fanart in pixel art style of the Atari 2600 game Pitfall! with Pitfall Harry swinging on a vine to get across a pit in the ground.

For #LegendsofRetro #3, we have... #Pitfall! Another art from 2006 originally, this one caused contriversay on the original place I posted it (somewhere called "Fanart Central" because they were covninced I'd just blown up a screenshot.

As always, check the link! cara.app/post/6011a5e... #fanart

Fan art resembling a game screen of Pong

Turning out to be a busy day at work, so let me get this out of the way before I forget.

Legends of Retro #2 is PONG! Also from 2006. Be sure to check out the Cara link! #fanart #LegendsofRetro #pong

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Rudimentary 3D art of Pac-Man approaching some dots with Blinky the red ghost approaching from the opposite direction.

Legends of Retro #1 is Pac-Man! Made in 2006 with my first attempt at using Rhino 3D. Check out the Cara link for commentary! #pacman #fanart #LegendsofRetro

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